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Kurdish novelist and poet (born 1960)

This article is about the Kurdish writer. For the Indonesian professor and ambassador, see Bachtiar Aly.

Bachtyar Ali Muhammed^[a] (Kurdish pronunciation:[bəxtɪː'ɑːɾ'ʕəli]; Sorani Kurdish: بەختیار عەلی; born 1960), is a Kurdish novelist, intellectual, literary critic, essayist, and poet.

Ali started out as a poet and essayist, but has established himself as an influential novelist from the mid-1990s.^[1] He has published thirteen novels, and several collections of poetry and essays.^[2]

Since the mid-1990s, Ali has been living in Germany (Frankfurt, Cologne and most recently Bonn).^[3] In his academic essays, he has dealt with various subjects, such as the 1988 Saddam-era Anfal genocide campaign, the relationship between the power and intellectuals and other philosophical issues.

He often employs western philosophical concepts to interpret an issue in Kurdish society, modifying or